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Innovations such as 3D printing, robotics, extreme customisation and high-performance computing are just some of the elements that will shape the future of manufacturing. But nothing will impact how things are made, and what they are capable of, more than the materials manufacturers use.

Advancements in material science are at a turning point. From programmable matter to smart polymers and self-healing concrete, the application of new materials could unlock new avenues for traditional industries to take off--and possibly solve some of the greatest challenges facing our planet.

But human beings are still inefficient at turning raw materials into useful ones, and useful ones in products. The road from discovery to production is long and strewn with pitfalls. There are many examples of wonder materials, much hyped at the time, that have failed to deliver the advantages they promised. And even modern manufacturing methods can be wasteful and polluting.

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The Future of Materials Summit will thus analyse the modern materials “ecosystem”, from research and development, via supply chains, to business applications. Its purpose will be to address such questions as:

How can advances in material science unlock new opportunities for innovation?

How can this ecosystem be made more efficient and environmentally friendly?

How can materials’ performances be improved throughout their life cycles – from the moment they are made to the moment they are recycled after their job is done?

How can governments encourage manufacturers to develop new materials and to refine their production methods – if, indeed, such encouragement is thought necessary?

And how are new ways of designing and manufacturing things reshaping industry?

In the spirit of debate and curiosity that defines The Economist, The Future of Materials Summit will bring together leading manufacturers, scientists, technologists and policymakers for a discussion intended to help crystallise what is happening, and to illuminate the role of novel materials in the manufacturing industries of the future.

Chair:Geoffrey Carr, science editor, The Economist

Moderator:Hal Hodson, technology correspondent, The Economist

Why attend

The Future of Materials Summit will bring together top level executives and manufacturing leaders, research scientists, academics and policymakers to explore how new materials are opening the way for new industries and also helping solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.

Join us for a 2 day summit and network with up to 700 of your peers from various industries including:

Register today and join us to explore and celebrate the new age of manufacturing.

Speakers

Xavier Bettel

Prime Minister of Luxembourg

Xavier Bettel

Prime Minister of Luxembourg

Xavier Bettel is the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, an office he has held since his appointment in 2013. Mr Bettel was first elected to Parliament in 1999 at the age of 26, and in his time he held roles including the vice-chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee and vice-chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State Intelligence Service. He was involved in local politics from the beginning, serving as a municipal councillor, and later as mayor of the City of Luxembourg before he became Prime Minister. During his time in politics he also worked as a barrister in Luxembourg.

Dirk Ahlborn

Chief executive officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Dirk Ahlborn

Chief executive officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Dirk Ahlborn is the CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) and the Founder and CEO of JumpStarter Inc. Founded in 2013, HTT designs and builds the most highly profitable, fastest, safest, and environmentally friendly transportation system for passengers and goods. HTT utilizes JumpStarter’s crowdfunding and crowd collaboration platform JumpStartFund and is thus able to leverage technology and a 800+ team of global experts to bring disruptive innovation to the traditional transportation industry. Hyperloop first gained public interest when entrepreneur Elon Musk published a white paper describing a futuristic mode of transport that would transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about thirty minutes. Musk handed the concept to the public and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies rose to the challenge.

Mike Gascoyne

Designer and engineer, Formula One

Mike Gascoyne

Designer and engineer, Formula One

Mike Gascoyne, is one of the most renowned technicians in Formula One and has carved out an illustrious career at the pinnacle of international Motorsport for over two decades.

Having studied for a Ph.D. in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University throughout the 1980s, Mike’s passion for Motorsport took him into the world of Formula One for the first time in 1989 when he joined the McLaren team. Since 1989 Mike has continued working at varying teams such as Sauber, Tyrrell, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, Force India and the Caterham Group. Mike has extensive experience in Motorsport and sports car engineering as well as international top level management.

Mike Gascoyne’s early career appointments include Head of Aerodynamics at McLaren Racing (1989-1991), Chassis Dynamists and then Deputy Technical Director at Tyrell F1 (1991-1993), Technical Director at Jordan F1 Team (1998-2000), Technical Director at Renault F1 Team (2001-2003), Technical Director and Head of Chassis Design at Toyota Motorsport GmbH, and CTO at Sahara Force India Formula One team (2006-2008).

From 2009-2015 Mike Gascoyne was CTO at Caterham Group, where he was responsible for setting up and managing the Group's Motorsport entities including the F1, GP2 and Le Mans teams. He also managed business development using his experience in Formula 1 engineering and project management to develop competitive turn-key solutions for the automotive, marine and aviation industry. Mike’s two main achievements during his time at the Caterham Group were setting up the Lotus Racing Formula 1 Team from scratch in 2009/2010 as well as negotiating and finalising the automotive partnership between the Caterham Group and Renault Alpine in France to produce a sports car on a joint design and production platform.

Mike Gascoyne replaced Eddie Jordan for several races as technical pundit for the BBC F1 coverage on live TV and Radio and was one of the most sought after personalities in the pit lane for media work. He is regularly on TV as a guest pundit for various Sky F1 channel feature programs.

Away from the fast-paced world of F1, Mike’s other passion is offshore sailing, and he aims to bring F1 standards of technology and logistics to offshore racing, to encourage green, sustainable and reusable energy technologies in the marine, automotive and aerospace sectors and to utilise his extensive experience in R&D, engineering, competitive sailing and sports marketing. He has competed in international offshore sailing events such as the Transat Jacques Vabres 2013, The Rolex Fastnet Race 2015, the RORC Transatlantic race and in 2012 completed a solo transatlantic trip on a Class 40 racing yacht.

Mike has previously raced old F1 cars and organised then lead expeditions in the Himalayas during student years.

Anatoly Chubais

Chairman, RUSNANO

Anatoly Chubais

Chairman, RUSNANO

In 1991 Anatoly Chubais was invited to join the first Russian Government led by Y.G. Gaidar where he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister. In the subsequent years he was a key political figure in the democratic movement. In 1996 Mr Chubais led B.N. Yeltsin's election team in the Presidential race. After B.N. Yeltsin's victory he took the position of chief of staff of the President and headed the finance and economic development division of the Government at various posts until 1998: Deputy Prime Minister for economic and financial policies, First Deputy Prime Minister and Russian Finance Minister. He represented Russia in international financial organizations, including the IMF and World Bank and was a member of the Russian Security Council. Euromoney Magazine named him the best Finance Minister in 1997. Between 1998 and 2008 he was chairman of the Board at the RAO UES of Russia, Russia’s electric power supply monopoly. In 2008 the President appointed Mr Chubais the chief executive officer of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies.

Tim Weber

Global head of metals, HP 3D Printing Business

Tim Weber

Global head of metals, HP 3D Printing Business

Tim Weber is Global Head of 3D Materials and Advanced Applications. His organization is responsible for development and commercialization of additive manufacturing (3-D Printed) materials, processes, and applications. Prior to HP, Tim worked for Boeing at their helicopter manufacturing facility in Philadelphia. He joined HP in 1993, starting as a product engineer on one of HP’s first thermal ink jet printers. Shortly thereafter he went into technical management and helped lead the development of numerous ink jet products. Over the next several years Tim led several R&D projects, becoming a R&D director in 2001. His organization was responsible for the development and ongoing production of the MEMS-based advanced printhead technology recently introduced across HP’s inkjet product lineup. Tim holds 52 U.S.-issued patents.

Christian Weimer

General manager materials and head of materials X, Airbus

Christian Weimer

General manager materials and head of materials X, Airbus

For more than two decades Dr. Christian Weimer has done research in the field of carbon fibre reinforced composites, but also surface and adhesives technologies. He started at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW). In 2003 he joined Airbus Helicopters to become team leader and senior expert in new composite production technologies. In 2012 he changed to Airbus Group to become Head of Operations of Composites Technologies. In 2017 Christian was appointed Head of Materials within Airbus CTO Central Research & Technology and in June he was also nominated General Materials or Thrust Leader Materials for Airbus. In this function he is leading research in the field of Materials for the different applications which include the Airbus Divisions (e.g. commercial aircraft, helicopters or defence and space), but also covers aspects of future air vehicles and air mobility. Christian's research has led to more than 50 international presentations and publications. Several of his more than 25 patent applications have found their way into application. Christian is also lecturing at the Technical University (TU) Munich on supply- and value creation composites.

Greg Mulholland

Chief executive officer, Citrine Informatics

Greg Mulholland

Chief executive officer, Citrine Informatics

Greg Mulholland is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Citrine Informatics, the data analytics platform for materials and chemicals. He works with partners along the materials value chain to use state of the art data science techniques to identify areas of improvement and optimization in advanced materials discovery, product design, and manufacturing. He has co-authored 20 peer-reviewed publications in materials science and electrical engineering; has given invited talks in Asia, Europe, and North America, including at the White House and European Commission; has led millions of dollars in US National Lab partnerships; and was named among Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy in 2015. Under his leadership, Citrine Informatics was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2017, one of the AI 100 by CB Insights, and has received numerous other global awards for materials and technology innovation. Before founding Citrine Informatics, Greg was the Director of Operations at Kyma Technologies, a producer of advanced compound semiconductors for the LED and power electronics industries. He holds an MBA from Stanford University, a MPhil of Materials Science from Cambridge University, and degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from NC State University.

Sanjay Chandra

Chief of research and development and scientific services, Tata Steel

Sanjay Chandra

Chief of research and development and scientific services, Tata Steel

Sanjay Chandra is a Metallurgical engineer with a Phd degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has been with Tata Steel for nearly 34 years and has worked largely in the Technical function. He has led research and development in two stints once in 2004 and since 2013. His areas of interest are mathematical modelling of heat transfer and phase transformation. Under his leadership, research work in Graphene has moved out from being a research and development project to a fledgling business unit. Other mature area of development is iron powder of high quality and surface area.

Jean Claude-Kihn

President, EMEA, Goodyear

Jean Claude-Kihn

President, EMEA, Goodyear

Jean-Claude Kihn joined Goodyear in 1988 as a Chemical Engineer at the Goodyear Innovation Center in Luxembourg. During his career, he built an extensive research and development expertise in the field of materials science, tire technology and tire development for Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. In 2016, he was appointed President of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Europe, Middle East & Africa business. He previously had served as President of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Latin America business since 2014 and Senior Vice President & Managing Director of Goodyear Brazil since December 2012. Prior to that, Kihn served as the company’s Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer since 2008. Kihn is a Chemical Engineer and has a Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium.

Sheetal Handa

Associate director BP-ICAM, BP International Limited

Sheetal Handa

Associate director BP-ICAM, BP International Limited

Sheetal Handa is the associate director responsible for the portfolio of research projects in the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, a 10-year $100m investment by BP in advanced materials research, with the hub at the University of Manchester and spokes at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Greg Conary

Greg Conary

Michael Saltzberg

Global business director, DuPont Industrial Biosciences

Michael Saltzberg

Global business director, DuPont Industrial Biosciences

Michael Saltzberg is the global business director for biomaterials at DuPont Industrial BioSciences. There he leads a portfolio of commercial and emerging businesses which utilize renewable feedstocks to make industrially important chemicals and materials, including DuPont Sorona polymer and Bio-PDO propanediol. Through the development of renewable biochemicals and biomaterials, Mike and his team are solving critical issues for industries as varied as packaging, cosmetics, apparel and carpeting, all facing the challenges of offering high performance choices to their downstream customers while making their supply chains more sustainable. Mike is a veteran of the industry with over twenty-nine years of experience at DuPont including R&D management, sales and marketing, and business development. He has led DuPont’s efforts in biomaterials business development since 2006.

Christina Lomasney

President and chief executive officer, Modumetal

Christina Lomasney

President and chief executive officer, Modumetal

Christina Lomasney is the chief executive and co-founder of Modumetal. Modumetal is pioneering nanolaminated metals manufacturing to enable the deployment of these ultra-high performance metals in a growing number of large-scale industrial and consumer applications. Modumetals exhibit properties never seen before in conventional metals in terms of hardness, toughness, strength, corrosion, wear and heat resistance, and more. Christina has worked in the research, development and commercialization of advanced materials technologies for over a decade, starting at The Boeing Company, where she served in engineering roles including in Phantomworks’ advanced metals manufacturing department. Christina later founded Isotron Corporation, an advanced materials company, which today holds a portfolio of advanced materials technologies and commercial products for environmental cleanup and restoration. Christina currently serves on the Board of Directors of ASTM International.

Hugues Despres

Chief executive officer Ujet International, VP Global S&M Ujet Group

Hugues Despres

Chief executive officer Ujet International, VP Global S&M Ujet Group

Hugues Després is the CEO of UJET International and Vice President of UJET Group, a subsidiary of Ocsial Group, the world's major producer of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) – one of the most promising advanced materials for global industries.

A new era company; UJET aspires to become a key player in the urban mobility revolution. Combining material science, green technologies, connectivity and design, UJET’s purpose is to reinvent and commercialize electric mobility solutions (products & services) that will empower communities desiring to live in more sustainable cities.

A graduate from the French Business School ISG in Paris and a MBA in Luxury Business Management from ISML Business School sponsored by Cartier International; Hugues Després’s expertise includes consumers’ insights, innovation management, brand development and international business leadership. Over and above his management experiences at Richemont Luxury Group, Mars Incorporated and Goodyear Dunlop Tires NV; Hugues Després has also been an entrepreneur in the premium retail industry.
As a high competition athlete, Hugues Després believes that tomorrow winners will only emerge from disruptive ideas that are focused on improving lives and solving societal problems.

Ivica Kolaric

Head of department of functional materials, Fraunhofer IPA

Ivica Kolaric

Head of department of functional materials, Fraunhofer IPA

Ivica Kolaric serves as head of department for “Functional Materials” at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, Germany and as a co-director Fraunhofer Project Center for Electroactive Polymer AIST, Kansai (Japan). After graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen in the field of mechatronics, he gained his first work experience in an automotive environment before joining the Fraunhofer- TEG as a research assistant. In his first years at Fraunhofer, he worked in the field of construction and methodical test planning as well as the execution. M. Kolaric has conducted pioneering work in the field of nano scaled carbon such as CNT and Graphene, and opened up this future technology for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. In 2002, Mr Kolaric, took over the group and expanded it to a new department, which has been integrated into the Fraunhofer IPA in 2008. In the same year, he started work around the hot topic “graphene”. To this day, his “Functional Materials” department is one of the biggest group’s worldwide, dealing with the application-oriented research of nano scaled carbon. Currently Mr. Kolaric’s focuses on nano enhanced energy storages systems, advanced printed technologies for human machine interfaces and material compositions for future the transportation industry.

Karen Hanghoj

Chief executive officer, EIT Raw Materials

Karen Hanghoj

Chief executive officer, EIT Raw Materials

Karen Hanghøj is the chief executive officer at EIT RawMaterials, a partner organization dedicated to strengthening Europe’s raw materials sector responsibly and sustainably. Karen has spent more than ten years working in the United States as a research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and as a research scientist at Columbia University, and has also worked as a consultant to the minerals exploration industry for more than 20 years. Before joining EIT, Karen was head of the Department of Petrology and Economic Geology at the Geological Survey for Denmark and Greenland and involved in several EU- funded mineral raw materials projects and networks.

Amy Heintz

Senior research scientist, Battelle

Amy Heintz

Senior research scientist, Battelle

Amy Heintz is a senior research scientist at Battelle, where she focuses on advanced materials, particularly translation of early stage concepts to products. Generally, her research is applied to solve proprietary challenges of commercial customers. Her technical expertise encompasses functional coatings and surfaces, ageing of soft matter, and dispersions. She has applied this expertise to solve technology problems in virtually every market; including medical devices, aerospace, consumer products, building and construction, oil and gas, industrial equipment, and electronics. Amy led two different internal R&D projects to grow new business offerings for Battelle: one in drug delivery devices and the other in advanced heaters for unmanned aerial vehicles. Both efforts resulted in successful maturation of technologies from TRL2 to TRL7. HeatCoat™ is a new anti-icing for aircraft that is now in preparation for flight demonstration; while the underlying materials platform is being expanded into new markets such as medical device.

Doron Aurbach

Director of the nano cleantech centre, Bar-llan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Material

Doron Aurbach

Director of the nano cleantech centre, Bar-llan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Material

Doron Aurbach founded the electrochemistry group at the Bar Ilan University in 1985. He also chaired the department of chemistry there from 2001-2005. His team studies the electrochemistry of active metals and non-aqueous electrochemical systems, develops spectroscopic methods (in situ and ex situ) for sensitive electrochemical systems, examines the electrochemical intercalation processes, electrochemical water desalination, electronically conducting red-ox polymers and develops rechargeable high energy density batteries and EDL capacitors. He has published more than 570 peer reviewed papers and boasts more than 25 patents. He serves as a senior editor in the journal of the electrochemical Society (JES). He is also a fellow of the ECS (2008), ISE (2010) and MRS (2012) and heads the INREP: Israel national research center for electrochemical propulsion. He received the ECS battery Div. technology award (2005), the Israel vacuum society (IVS) and Israel chemical society (ICS) excellence prizes (2007, 2012), the Landau prize for research towards green energy (2011), the ECS battery Div. research award, the Kolthoff prize (2013) and the E.B. Yeager prize of the International Battery Association IBA (2014).

Mikhail Predtechenskiy

Head of research and development, OCSiAl

Mikhail Predtechenskiy

Head of research and development, OCSiAl

Mikhail Predtechenskiy is a PhD in Physico-Mathematical Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of department at the Institute of Thermophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and head of department of Nanocomposites at Novosibirsk State University. He heads research and development and is a co-founder of OCSiAl Group, and the author of more than 300 scientific publications and 51 patents. Dr Predtechenskiy has achieved a number of breakthroughs in the fields of molecular physics, plasma physics, thermophysics, high-temperature superconductivity, thin-film physics and others. Currently, his main efforts are concentrated on the synthesis of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). He created the first industrial-scale technology for SWCNT production, which is the core material of OCSiAl. This technology allowed OCSiAl to significantly reduce the cost of SWCNTs and to offer the product TUBALL at a price 100 times lower than that of competitors. This has powered OCSiAl to its current position where it controls 90% of the global market for SWCNTs. Dr Predtechenskiy, using SWCNTs, has produced new materials with improved properties that were previously unattainable, such as heavy-duty conductive polyethylene, nanotube paper, and lithium-ion batteries with a charging rate many times higher than before. The scientists at OCSiAl, under the guidance of Dr Predtechenskiy, have created a whole range of concentrates and suspensions that make it easy to introduce SWCNTs into various materials including thermoplastics, thermosets, rubber, carbon-filled plastic and glass-reinforced plastic.

Paul O’Brien

Professor of inorganic materials chemistry, University of Manchester

Paul O’Brien

Professor of inorganic materials chemistry, University of Manchester

Paul O'Brien is professor of Inorganic Materials Chemistry in both the School of Chemistry and the School of Materials at University of Manchester. He has previously been research dean, head of the School of Chemistry and head of the School of Materials. He founded Nanoco in 2001 now listed on LSE. He began his career as a lecturer at Chelsea College, University of London, before moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1984 and being promoted to a chair in 1994. In 1995 he moved to Imperial College and became the Sumitomo/STS Professor of Materials Chemistry. He was also visiting professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the 2007 Kroll Medal from the IoM3, the first Peter Day Award for Materials Chemistry in 2009 and The Longstaff Medal in 2016. As a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry he chaired the Materials Forum, and was a member of the Council of the RSC for nearly a decade and an inaugural vice president. He has lectured widely to the public, especially to young people, and received the Colin Humphries Award of the IoM3 for outreach activities in 2011 and their Platinum Medal in 2014. In 2016 his work in science and engineering was recognized by the award of a CBE.

Russel Kempt

Vice-president, Nanosys

Russel Kempt

Vice-president, Nanosys

As Nanosys Vice President, Russell Kempt oversees new business development and strategic partnerships. Russell has extensive experience in advanced materials with a track record for bringing innovative new materials products from lab project to commercial success. Prior to Nanosys, Russell served as Vice President at advanced materials innovator Intermolecular, Inc. (IMI). At IMI Russell developed and managed technical and sales teams in the US, Europe, Taiwan, China and Korea to execute highly complex R&D processes across multiple partners and customers. He helped to enable a successful IPO for the company in 2011. Prior to IMI, Russell held management positions with leading semi-conductor technology companies including PDF Solutions and Silvaco. Russell has a B.S. in Finance and Management from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from the University of Texas.

Imad Naasani

Chief technology officer, Nanoco Life Sciences

Imad Naasani

Chief technology officer, Nanoco Life Sciences

Dr. Imad Naasani is the CTO of Nanoco Life Sciences, a business branch within Nanoco Technologies, Ltd. Imad is a trained pharmacist and has a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Hokkaido University, Japan. Following several years at the Cancer Institute in Japan, and the Ohio State University, Imad joined in BioCrystal, Ltd. in 2001, then Invitrogen Corp, USA, to become one of the earliest scientists to work on the development and characterisation of quantum dots (QDs) for biological applications. Imad has managed several research groups and worked on projects related to cancer targeting and delivery systems. He has accumulated a wealth of inventions with more than 50 patents and patent applications related to the development and functionalisation of QDs and their specialised biological applications. Imad joined Nanoco in 2008 and is now expanding the Life Science Division with chemistry and bio facilities that are now ready to exploit market opportunities.

Oren Gafri

Venture capitalist, materials engineering, MMT Fund

Oren Gafri

Venture capitalist, materials engineering, MMT Fund

Oren Garfi was the founder and chief executive officer of Chemitas, the largest manufacturer and supplier of specialty chemicals, water and wastewater treatment in Israel, from 1989-1995. He was also the founder, chief executive officer and president of Pulsar (1996-2007). He was elected by Tel Aviv University to be Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 and is also the founder and chairman of Wadis. Mr Garfi is a co-founder and senior partner of the Millennium Materials Technology Funds I and II (1998 – now), which invests in seed and early stage Material Science companies. Mr Garfi has furthermore co-founded several technology non-for profit organizations, and served as the chairman of those, including The Peals of Wisdom Association. Mr Garfi is one of the founders and mentors of The Rishon-Start up accelerator. He is Board director and Corporate senior executive at Tel Aviv University. Mr Garfi has roughly 20 patents.

Wilfried Vancraen

Chief executive officer, Materialise

Wilfried Vancraen

Chief executive officer, Materialise

Wilfried Vancraen is the founder and chief executive officer of Materialise. Founded in 1990, Materialise incorporates more than 25 years of 3D printing experience into a range of software solutions and 3D printing services that together form a backbone for 3D printing technologies. In recent years, Mr Vancraen has been awarded the RTAM/SME Industry Achievement Award; has been selected as the most influential person in additive manufacturing by industry professionals and TCT Magazine; and has been listed one of the five leading players in his sector by the Financial Times. He is also the recipient of a 2013 "Visionaries!" award from the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Mr Vancraen holds a Master of Science in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from KULeuven University.

Gabby Sarusi

Professor of electrooptic engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Gabby Sarusi

Professor of electrooptic engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Gabby Sarusi is a faculty member at the electro-optics engineering department and in the Nano-science institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev since 2012. His researches include quantum structure infrared detectors, band gap-engineering quantum devices, SWIR to visible upconversion devices based on nano-photonics technologies, nano augmented materials such as Graphene and Graphene Nano-Tubes (GNT or SWCNT) for photonic devices and for optical transparent cathodes and anodes.

In parallel to his academic career Prof. Sarusi is a co-founder of Imagine – mobile augmented reality Ltd., Nano-Sono corporation Ltd., TechSee Ltd. and have just joined RideOn Ltd. Prof. Sarusi has been on the boards of directors of several Israeli companies such as SCD, Opgal Ltd., Medigus Ltd. and IAI Ltd.

Prior to his academic carrier, Prof. Sarusi hold several executive positions at Elbit System – Electrooptic (ElOp) the largest electrooptics company in Israel and one of four worldwide, where he was: V.P. Head of the Space and Air Imagery Intelligence Division, V.P. - Chief Scientist and the Head of Thermal Imaging System Development.

Prof. Sarusi holds double B.Sc. degrees with honor in Nuclear Engineering and in Material Science, M.Sc. with honor and Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in Physical-Electronics Engineering and MBA from Tel-Aviv University. He did his post doctorate at AT&T Bell Labs. Murray-Hill N.J. and in NASA-JPL, Pasadena CA.

Chuck Milligan

Chief executive officer, FlexEnable

Chuck Milligan

Chief executive officer, FlexEnable

Chuck Milligan is chief executive officer of FlexEnable, the leader in flexible electronics technology for flexible, lightweight and unbreakable displays and sensors for consumer electronics, automotive, wearable and medical applications. Mr Milligan has over 20 years’ commercial and general management experience across the globe in the semiconductor, consumer electronics, communications, industrial and aerospace markets. Before joining FlexEnable in 2015, Mr Milligan served as chief executive officer of EM Test, the leading conducted EMC test equipment company, successfully completing its sale to the US company AMETEK. Prior to this, Mr Milligan was chief executive officer of Swiss firm Heptagon micro-optics, which he grew from a 16-employee, pre-revenue company in Zurich, to an industry-leading business, with 300 employees and a Singapore-based volume production facility, supplying high-volume optical components to leading mobile handset companies such as Nokia and Apple. He raised over $70m from venture capital and strategic investors to support this growth.Mr Milligan also served as vice-president of Industrial and Defense Solutions for Bookham, a leading international optical components manufacturer. Mr Milligan was commercial director at JDS Uniphase/Nortel Networks GaAs semiconductor fab in Zurich, Switzerland prior to Bookham’s acquisition of the company. Mr Milligan moved to Switzerland in 1995 to establish a Europe/Africa sales office for Harris RF Communications, a global radio communications systems supplier.

Artur Kupczunas

Co-chief executive officer, Saule Technologies

Artur Kupczunas

Co-chief executive officer, Saule Technologies

Artur Kupczunas is co-founder and co-chief executive officer at Saule Technologies, one of the first companies in the world working on the commercial application of perovskites in the new generation of photovoltaic cells. Mr Kupczunas also co-founded NanoPure, developing and commercialising novel and revolutionary technologies in the field of chemistry and advanced material engineering. He is chief executive officer and co-founder of Bridge One, a venture capital fund bridging the worlds of science and business investing in pre-seed projects at an early TRL 2-6 stage. He holds an MBA from University of Minnesota and M.Tech from Poznan University of Technology. He created and cooperated with companies from various sectors such as Construction, Chemical, IT, Renewable Energy. Mr Kupczunas is an entrepreneur willing to take fast and calculated actions to execute and implement programs, processes and structure that drive innovation and growth.

Sharali Malik

Chair, COST CA15107

Sharali Malik

Chair, COST CA15107

Sharali Malik leads the Nano-Carbon Materials research group at the Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He studied Chemistry at King’s College London, Electrochemical Sciences at Southampton University. This led to a R&D position with Varta developing the batteries which made mobile-phones truly “mobile” rather than just “transportable”. Later on, at Kent University, his PhD research was on High Temperature Corrosion of Metals where he developed the “Malik General-Flux Equation” which was put to good use by Westinghouse. Health, Safety and Environmental issues are key considerations in all areas and Dr Malik also has several years’ experience of advising on, implementing and enforcing Health and Safety at Work as a UK Government HSE Inspector. Dr Malik is the chair of COST Action CA15107 - Multi-Functional Nano-Carbon Composite Materials Network (MultiComp). The Action’s main objective is the “Fabrication of lighter, stronger and cheaper nano-carbon composite materials” and so provides an ideal platform for Participants to enhance their research-related skills as well as their innovation and enterprise skills in this international network which involves both academic and business enterprises.

Egil Hogna

Head of extruded solutions, Hydro

Egil Hogna

Head of extruded solutions, Hydro

Egil Hogna is the chief executive officer and president at Sapa, the world’s largest aluminium extruder. Sapa is working with companies from all industries and sectors helping to design, extrude and manufacture everything from car bumpers to mobile phones, air-condition parts, windows and cruise ships – and everything in between. As the chief executive officer of a large industrial company Mr Hogna has become the ambassador for sustainable design and production and use his position to educate the world’s producers about material properties and manufacturing processes to ensure products for recycling to ensure better reuse of material in a circular economy. Design for recycling and design for disassembly is a key element when looking at the modern materials “ecosystem. Prior to Sapa, Mr Hogna worked for the international fertilizer company Yara and for the Norwegian aluminium company Hydro. Mr Hogna started his career as a Consultant at McKinsey in 1994. Mr Hogna holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Management from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU) and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Anthony Schiavo

Analyst, Lux Research

Anthony Schiavo

Analyst, Lux Research

Anthony Schiavo is an analyst based in Lux Research’s Singapore office. He leads the Advanced Materials team and supports the broader materials research at Lux. Under his leadership, the Advanced Materials team conducts research on technical and market trends in areas such as future materials platforms, advanced structural materials, and coatings. His expertise also includes new technological innovations in digital manufacturing, materials informatics, and advanced design technologies. Mr Schiavo often is called upon to provide strategic advice and guidance for executives in the automotive, chemicals, and consumer goods industries. Mr Schiavo received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Mr Schiavo focused his research activities on biomaterial composites and nanoparticle technology and ethics.

Kent Schölin

Senior vice-president research & innovation, Gränges

Kent Schölin

Senior vice-president research & innovation, Gränges

After a year as process engineer at the truck manufacturer Scania, Kent Schölin joined Gränges’ research centre in Finspång, Sweden as a research engineer specialized in aluminium flat rolled products for brazed heat exchangers. Mr Schölin held several positions within Gränges over the years primarily within Research and Development and operations. After a seven-year period outside Gränges as manager director for a retail security company he came back to Gränges as president for the European operations 2012. Since spring 2017 he has assumed a new position as senior vice-president Research and Innovation. The new position is a result of an increased focus in Gränges strategy both on product development within the current core applications but also research and innovation in new applications. To support this strategy the research centre in Finspång, Sweden is strengthened to be the global centre for long term development with a clear connection to group strategy.

Mark Sommer

Chief executive officer, Gamma Alloys

Mark Sommer

Chief executive officer, Gamma Alloys

Mark Sommer co-founded Gamma Alloys in 2008 and currently serves as the company’s CEO. Mark’s technical background in engine design, process engineering, and materials science, combined with business experience, has been vital to the growth and success of Gamma Alloys. Under his leadership, Gamma has grown from a lab concept of reinforcing aluminum alloys with nanotechnology to a game-changer material supplier for the aerospace, automotive, and alternative energy industries. His vision for Gamma is to become the world leader in ultra-strong, lightweight materials. Prior to Gamma Alloys, Mark was the President of Del West USA, a leading manufacturer of precision auto engine components for the auto racing and ultra-performance passenger car markets. Mark still serves on the board of the parent company, Del West Engineering as well as Perception Robots, a developer of touch and vision -based sensing solutions for next-generation robots.

Robert Dennewald

Chief executive officer, Eurobeton

Robert Dennewald

Chief executive officer, Eurobeton

Matteo Pasquali

Chair of the Chemistry Department, Rice University

Matteo Pasquali

Chair of the Chemistry Department, Rice University

Matteo Pasquali is the A. J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University, where he also serves as Chair of the Chemistry Department and previously served as Master of Lovett College and member of the academic senate. After receiving his Laurea from University of Bologna and PhD from University of Minnesota, he joined Rice University in 2000 to start a laboratory on soft materials, which evolved into a key center for the scalable manufacturing and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene materials with enhanced mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. The laboratory currently targets applications in wearables, energy transmission and harvesting, biomedicine, aerospace, and defense. These CNT materials are already incorporated into prototypes (field emitters, data cables) and high-end products (audio cables). Matteo has advised over 90 graduate students and postdocs, who are now in key positions in industry, academia, national laboratories, startups, and finance. Matteo’s work is funded by wide range of industries ranging from international and national oil companies to automotive, aerospace, electronics, and high tech companies. Matteo founded two companies, DexMat (smart CNT materials) and NanoLinea (medical applications of CNT fibers). Matteo’s work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER, Goradia innovation prize, Schlack award for man-made fibers, and multiple NASA Tech Brief Awards. Matteo is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Jens Kreisel

Director, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Jens Kreisel

Director, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Professor Jens Kreisel is Director of the "Materials Research and Technology Department" at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). The department translates cutting-edge Materials research into industrial innovation, by focusing on Nanomaterials and Composite Materials. Before moving to Luxembourg in 2012, he was Director of Research at the CNRS in Grenoble and Dpt. Vice-President of the Grenoble Institute of Technology. JK's personal research interests lie in Materials Sciences, with a particular interest in how different physical properties interact in functional materials and how such functionalities can be translated into technology. He received a PEARL award of 5 M€ in 2013 from the Luxembourg research council for investigating multifunctional materials. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Phase Transitions" and also Adjunct Professor at the University of Luxembourg.

Christian Suttner

Co-founder, Starburst Accelerator

Christian Suttner

Co-founder, Starburst Accelerator

Dr. Christian Suttner is co-founder and managing partner of Starburst, a global Aerospace consulting company focused on supporting corporates regarding innovation, growth, and transformation. He studied computer science at TU Munich and Virginia Tech and after a Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence, he started his career in strategy consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton. He then spent several years in Venture Capital, mainly focused on investing in Internet-enabled businesses. Transferring innovation know-how back to corporates, he joined global semiconductor company Infineon as Vice President heading in-house innovation scouting and incubation (with 6 trade-sales and spin-outs of internally launched businesses) and later headed corporate strategy including new business creation, followed by global sales management, at global DRAM manufacturing company Qimonda. Since then he has founded/co-founded 7 companies. Over time, he has supported numerous corporations and startups regarding strategy, innovation, growth, digitization, business planning, transformation and operational excellence. Dr. Suttner uniquely combines experience ranging from launching and investing in startups to managing and implementing change in corporations. Starburst runs the largest aerospace accelerator and technology scouting organization globally, which includes a segment on material and coating innovations. The accelerator provides Starburst with a comprehensive overview of aerospace innovations globally.

Bodo Fiedler

Head of institute, Hamburg University of Technology

Bodo Fiedler

Head of institute, Hamburg University of Technology

Ashok Ganesh

Director, innovation, CEN-CENELEC

Ashok Ganesh

Director, innovation, CEN-CENELEC

Ashok Ganesh is Director Innovation at CEN CENELEC and has worked in standardization for ov20 years. His current responsibilities include developing new standardization opportunities including standards supporting the digital transformation of industry, deeper integration of standards and research, supporting SME and societal stakeholders to benefit from standards and Education about Standardization.

Kristian Steele

Principal Consultant, Arup

Kristian Steele

Principal Consultant, Arup

Kristian Steele works in the Advanced Technology and Research group and takes a special interest in their climate change and materials consulting businesses respectively. His professional training was as a civil engineer, but through a doctorate, work experience with BRE, and subsequently Arup, he has moved to specialise in systems analysis using tools like LCA and MRIO to understand environmental challenges of product and material supply chains, of buildings and infrastructure, organisations and their operation, and at the regional or sector scale. Kristian’s work has been used to inform policy and strategy, guide design projects, advise Governments, sectors and organisations, as well as support product development programmes.

Alexander Lorestani

Chief executive officer, Geltor

Alexander Lorestani

Chief executive officer, Geltor

Rik Jacobs

General manager, dental, 3D Systems

Rik Jacobs

General manager, dental, 3D Systems

Nino Tronchetti Provera

Founder and managing partner, Ambienta

Nino Tronchetti Provera

Founder and managing partner, Ambienta

Nino Tronchetti Provera is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ambienta, a leading European private equity firm focused on environmental growth investments in industrial SMEs. Earlier in his career, Nino was a consultant at MCKinsey & Co where he established the environmental business within practice. In 1997 Nino founded Cam Tecnologie to develop clean technologies and products. From 2002 to 2007, Nino worked within the Telecom Italia group, first as CEO of Finsiel, and subsequently as General Manager of Olivetti. Nino is a Board Member of AIFI and part of the Mid Market Council within EVCA. Nino holds a degree (cum laude) in Business Administration from Luiss University, Rome, and an MBA from INSEAD Business School.

Aloyse Schoos

Chief technology officer, IEE

Aloyse Schoos

Chief technology officer, IEE

Aloyse Schoos is chief technology officer in charge of new technologies, central research and development and academic collaborations at IEE S.A. He holds a Masters in Electronics Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. Before joining IEE in 1991, he worked for various companies ranging from an academic spin-off to large multinational corporations. Aloyse Schoos is a member of the Scientific Council at the National Research Fund.

Marc Jacobs

Chairman, APEMCO

Marc Jacobs

Chairman, APEMCO

Marc holds a Master’s Degree in electro-mechanical engineering from KIH De Nayer in Belgium and a SLOAN MSc in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School.

He moved to Luxembourg in 1998 as co-founder and General Manager of LuxPET. After the acquisition of LuxPET in 2005 by Plastipak, Marc held several senior positions within Plastipak (Managing Director LuxPET, Director Process Technologies and VP of Sales & Marketing for Europe)

Following an academic sabbatical at London Business School in 2014 he started his own company, Imajine Consulting and became an angel investor.

Early 2016, Luxinnovation introduced Marc to Funcoats, a promising Luxembourgish start-up founded by Dr. Claude Becker. Together with two other investors, he started developing the company and completed the service offering by adding APEMCO, a spin-off of the Belgian research institute VITO. Marc is chairman of the board of both companies and is currently in the process of combining the capabilities of both in one group.

Olivier Vassart

Portfolio leader for construction, ArcelorMittal

Olivier Vassart

Portfolio leader for construction, ArcelorMittal

Prof. Dr. Olivier Vassart is portfolio leader for construction, infrastructure and long products within ArcelorMittal’s global research and development team. In addition to his work for ArcelorMittal, he is Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

Carl de Mare

Vice-president, head of technology strategy, ArcelorMittal

Carl de Mare

Vice-president, head of technology strategy, ArcelorMittal

Carl de Mare is a civil engineer by training (University of Gent 1985). He joined the company in 1988 and is active in multiple areas, including IT developments and the research center for steel applications. From 2002 to 2006 he was the general manager of the Steel plant department of ArcelorMittal Gent. In 2006 he moved to the segment level of ArcelorMittal, first in charge of continuous improvement for Flat
Europe and then in May 2008 as Vice-President of ArcelorMittal as chief technology officer of Flat Carbon Europe, responsible for technology, strategy, innovations and continuous improvement. In 2014 he was nominated as vice-president ArcelorMittal as head of technology strategy. In this function he is responsible for the global program on low impact steel technologies.

Marc Fenigstein

Chief executive officer and co-founder, Alta Motors

Marc Fenigstein

Chief executive officer and co-founder, Alta Motors

A technologist, designer and CEO of Alta Motors, Marc Fenigstein has spent a career developing unique products for new markets, and helping large, staid companies reinvent themselves. He’s worked in venture capital at Redwood Venture Partners, strategy consulting at BCG and Frog Design creating products including HP's SkyRoom software, Carmanah Technologies' 1700 Series Solar Lighting systems and many others under NDA. With a propensity to take things apart and rebuild them at a young age, Marc graduated with a BA degree in Fine Art and Engineering and a MEM in Engineering and Management at Dartmouth College.

Matthew Graham

Chief executive officer, Sino Global Capital

Matthew Graham

Chief executive officer, Sino Global Capital

Matthew Graham, chief executive officer of Sino Global Capital, has six years of mainland China investment banking and venture capital experience. At chief executive officer of Sino Global Capital, Matthew focuses on China cross-border strategic investment including clients in manufacturing and materials related sectors such as nanotechnology, batteries, and raw materials. In his previous role he was a Managing Director at CBC, a Chinese private equity fund with limited partners that included TCL and the cities of Shenzhen and Chongqing. Matthew graduated from the University of Rochester MBA program with a concentration in finance and studied quantitative finance at the University of California Berkeley. Before pursuing his graduate studies, Matthew managed a trading desk at a boutique technology-focused hedge fund in New York City after starting his career at IBM Global Services. Mr. Graham was a National Merit, Presidential, and Xerox Scholar at American University. He lives in Beijing and is fluent in Mandarin.

Hansang Kwon

Hansang Kwon

Agenda

Registration and networking refreshments

9:00 AM

Chair’s opening remarks

Geoffrey Carr, science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr

Science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr

Science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr is the Science and Technology Editor of “The Economist”. Before he fell among journalists, he researched animal behaviour at Oxford University. In particular, he studied the behavioural ecology of feral dogs in the Italian Apennines, becoming something of an expert on the matter. An expert was once defined as someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. A journalist lives in perpetual danger of turning into the opposite of this. He hopes, however, that he has now arrived at some sort of Hegelian synthesis between the two extremes.

9:10 AM

Welcome remarks

Xavier Bettel

Prime Minister of Luxembourg

Xavier Bettel

Prime Minister of Luxembourg

Xavier Bettel is the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, an office he has held since his appointment in 2013. Mr Bettel was first elected to Parliament in 1999 at the age of 26, and in his time he held roles including the vice-chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee and vice-chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State Intelligence Service. He was involved in local politics from the beginning, serving as a municipal councillor, and later as mayor of the City of Luxembourg before he became Prime Minister. During his time in politics he also worked as a barrister in Luxembourg.

9:20 AM

Keynote interview: Materials that have changed the world

Which innovations in materials have most shaped humanity over past centuries? What is the potential for technology and science to create a new generation of materials, and how will these in turn shape the future?

Anatoly Chubais

Chairman, RUSNANO

Anatoly Chubais

Chairman, RUSNANO

In 1991 Anatoly Chubais was invited to join the first Russian Government led by Y.G. Gaidar where he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister. In the subsequent years he was a key political figure in the democratic movement. In 1996 Mr Chubais led B.N. Yeltsin's election team in the Presidential race. After B.N. Yeltsin's victory he took the position of chief of staff of the President and headed the finance and economic development division of the Government at various posts until 1998: Deputy Prime Minister for economic and financial policies, First Deputy Prime Minister and Russian Finance Minister. He represented Russia in international financial organizations, including the IMF and World Bank and was a member of the Russian Security Council. Euromoney Magazine named him the best Finance Minister in 1997. Between 1998 and 2008 he was chairman of the Board at the RAO UES of Russia, Russia’s electric power supply monopoly. In 2008 the President appointed Mr Chubais the chief executive officer of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies.

9:50 AM

Keynote Panel discussion: The new age for manufacturing

There is a conflict between the world’s ongoing need for materials and the toll their extraction takes on the biosphere. How can this toll be minimised? How can new materials offer more sustainable solutions and usher in a new age for manufacturing?

Bodo Fiedler

Head of institute, Hamburg University of Technology

Bodo Fiedler

Head of institute, Hamburg University of Technology

Christina Lomasney

President and chief executive officer, Modumetal

Christina Lomasney

President and chief executive officer, Modumetal

Christina Lomasney is the chief executive and co-founder of Modumetal. Modumetal is pioneering nanolaminated metals manufacturing to enable the deployment of these ultra-high performance metals in a growing number of large-scale industrial and consumer applications. Modumetals exhibit properties never seen before in conventional metals in terms of hardness, toughness, strength, corrosion, wear and heat resistance, and more. Christina has worked in the research, development and commercialization of advanced materials technologies for over a decade, starting at The Boeing Company, where she served in engineering roles including in Phantomworks’ advanced metals manufacturing department. Christina later founded Isotron Corporation, an advanced materials company, which today holds a portfolio of advanced materials technologies and commercial products for environmental cleanup and restoration. Christina currently serves on the Board of Directors of ASTM International.

Greg Mulholland

Chief executive officer, Citrine Informatics

Greg Mulholland

Chief executive officer, Citrine Informatics

Greg Mulholland is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Citrine Informatics, the data analytics platform for materials and chemicals. He works with partners along the materials value chain to use state of the art data science techniques to identify areas of improvement and optimization in advanced materials discovery, product design, and manufacturing. He has co-authored 20 peer-reviewed publications in materials science and electrical engineering; has given invited talks in Asia, Europe, and North America, including at the White House and European Commission; has led millions of dollars in US National Lab partnerships; and was named among Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy in 2015. Under his leadership, Citrine Informatics was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2017, one of the AI 100 by CB Insights, and has received numerous other global awards for materials and technology innovation. Before founding Citrine Informatics, Greg was the Director of Operations at Kyma Technologies, a producer of advanced compound semiconductors for the LED and power electronics industries. He holds an MBA from Stanford University, a MPhil of Materials Science from Cambridge University, and degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from NC State University.

10:30 AM

Networking break

11:00 AM

Clean materials and clean technologies 1.1

How can new “clean” materials help deal with the world’s most pressing environmental problems? How can clean materials and clean energy combine to produce clean technologies? This session gathers scientists, thinkers and business leaders to answer three questions:

How can advances in materials improve energy efficiency and smooth the path to a lower-carbon future?

How can materials science help protect and preserving Earth’s biosphere?

How can materials science help tackle the scarcity of water?

This session will feature short presentations followed by Q&A

Hugues Despres

Chief executive officer Ujet International, VP Global S&M Ujet Group

Hugues Despres

Chief executive officer Ujet International, VP Global S&M Ujet Group

Hugues Després is the CEO of UJET International and Vice President of UJET Group, a subsidiary of Ocsial Group, the world's major producer of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) – one of the most promising advanced materials for global industries.

A new era company; UJET aspires to become a key player in the urban mobility revolution. Combining material science, green technologies, connectivity and design, UJET’s purpose is to reinvent and commercialize electric mobility solutions (products & services) that will empower communities desiring to live in more sustainable cities.

A graduate from the French Business School ISG in Paris and a MBA in Luxury Business Management from ISML Business School sponsored by Cartier International; Hugues Després’s expertise includes consumers’ insights, innovation management, brand development and international business leadership. Over and above his management experiences at Richemont Luxury Group, Mars Incorporated and Goodyear Dunlop Tires NV; Hugues Després has also been an entrepreneur in the premium retail industry.
As a high competition athlete, Hugues Després believes that tomorrow winners will only emerge from disruptive ideas that are focused on improving lives and solving societal problems.

11:20 AM

CLEAN MATERIALS AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES 1.2

Artur Kupczunas

Co-chief executive officer, Saule Technologies

Artur Kupczunas

Co-chief executive officer, Saule Technologies

Artur Kupczunas is co-founder and co-chief executive officer at Saule Technologies, one of the first companies in the world working on the commercial application of perovskites in the new generation of photovoltaic cells. Mr Kupczunas also co-founded NanoPure, developing and commercialising novel and revolutionary technologies in the field of chemistry and advanced material engineering. He is chief executive officer and co-founder of Bridge One, a venture capital fund bridging the worlds of science and business investing in pre-seed projects at an early TRL 2-6 stage. He holds an MBA from University of Minnesota and M.Tech from Poznan University of Technology. He created and cooperated with companies from various sectors such as Construction, Chemical, IT, Renewable Energy. Mr Kupczunas is an entrepreneur willing to take fast and calculated actions to execute and implement programs, processes and structure that drive innovation and growth.

Nino Tronchetti Provera

Founder and managing partner, Ambienta

Nino Tronchetti Provera

Founder and managing partner, Ambienta

Nino Tronchetti Provera is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ambienta, a leading European private equity firm focused on environmental growth investments in industrial SMEs. Earlier in his career, Nino was a consultant at MCKinsey & Co where he established the environmental business within practice. In 1997 Nino founded Cam Tecnologie to develop clean technologies and products. From 2002 to 2007, Nino worked within the Telecom Italia group, first as CEO of Finsiel, and subsequently as General Manager of Olivetti. Nino is a Board Member of AIFI and part of the Mid Market Council within EVCA. Nino holds a degree (cum laude) in Business Administration from Luiss University, Rome, and an MBA from INSEAD Business School.

11:55 AM

Panel discussion: Best practices for new materials’ development

To what extent are manufacturers taking responsibility for the life cycles of their products—from the extraction of raw materials to production, distribution and, eventually, recycling or disposal? How can they assess the environmental and social impact of the materials they use? What are governments doing to promote the efficient use of materials?

Karen Hanghoj

Chief executive officer, EIT Raw Materials

Karen Hanghoj

Chief executive officer, EIT Raw Materials

Karen Hanghøj is the chief executive officer at EIT RawMaterials, a partner organization dedicated to strengthening Europe’s raw materials sector responsibly and sustainably. Karen has spent more than ten years working in the United States as a research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and as a research scientist at Columbia University, and has also worked as a consultant to the minerals exploration industry for more than 20 years. Before joining EIT, Karen was head of the Department of Petrology and Economic Geology at the Geological Survey for Denmark and Greenland and involved in several EU- funded mineral raw materials projects and networks.

Michael Saltzberg

Global business director, DuPont Industrial Biosciences

Michael Saltzberg

Global business director, DuPont Industrial Biosciences

Michael Saltzberg is the global business director for biomaterials at DuPont Industrial BioSciences. There he leads a portfolio of commercial and emerging businesses which utilize renewable feedstocks to make industrially important chemicals and materials, including DuPont Sorona polymer and Bio-PDO propanediol. Through the development of renewable biochemicals and biomaterials, Mike and his team are solving critical issues for industries as varied as packaging, cosmetics, apparel and carpeting, all facing the challenges of offering high performance choices to their downstream customers while making their supply chains more sustainable. Mike is a veteran of the industry with over twenty-nine years of experience at DuPont including R&D management, sales and marketing, and business development. He has led DuPont’s efforts in biomaterials business development since 2006.

Egil Hogna

Head of extruded solutions, Hydro

Egil Hogna

Head of extruded solutions, Hydro

Egil Hogna is the chief executive officer and president at Sapa, the world’s largest aluminium extruder. Sapa is working with companies from all industries and sectors helping to design, extrude and manufacture everything from car bumpers to mobile phones, air-condition parts, windows and cruise ships – and everything in between. As the chief executive officer of a large industrial company Mr Hogna has become the ambassador for sustainable design and production and use his position to educate the world’s producers about material properties and manufacturing processes to ensure products for recycling to ensure better reuse of material in a circular economy. Design for recycling and design for disassembly is a key element when looking at the modern materials “ecosystem. Prior to Sapa, Mr Hogna worked for the international fertilizer company Yara and for the Norwegian aluminium company Hydro. Mr Hogna started his career as a Consultant at McKinsey in 1994. Mr Hogna holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Management from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU) and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Carl de Mare

Vice-president, head of technology strategy, ArcelorMittal

Carl de Mare

Vice-president, head of technology strategy, ArcelorMittal

Carl de Mare is a civil engineer by training (University of Gent 1985). He joined the company in 1988 and is active in multiple areas, including IT developments and the research center for steel applications. From 2002 to 2006 he was the general manager of the Steel plant department of ArcelorMittal Gent. In 2006 he moved to the segment level of ArcelorMittal, first in charge of continuous improvement for Flat
Europe and then in May 2008 as Vice-President of ArcelorMittal as chief technology officer of Flat Carbon Europe, responsible for technology, strategy, innovations and continuous improvement. In 2014 he was nominated as vice-president ArcelorMittal as head of technology strategy. In this function he is responsible for the global program on low impact steel technologies.

12:40 PM

Networking lunch

2:00 PM

Panel discussion: The materials conundrum—from discovery to high volume manufacturing

From invention, via scale-up, to high-volume manufacturing and subsequent service support, an “end to end” materials ecosystem needs to be developed. How can that be fostered? What more can businesses do to increase research and development to this end? To what extent should governments help?

Sanjay Chandra

Chief of research and development and scientific services, Tata Steel

Sanjay Chandra

Chief of research and development and scientific services, Tata Steel

Sanjay Chandra is a Metallurgical engineer with a Phd degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has been with Tata Steel for nearly 34 years and has worked largely in the Technical function. He has led research and development in two stints once in 2004 and since 2013. His areas of interest are mathematical modelling of heat transfer and phase transformation. Under his leadership, research work in Graphene has moved out from being a research and development project to a fledgling business unit. Other mature area of development is iron powder of high quality and surface area.

Ivica Kolaric

Head of department of functional materials, Fraunhofer IPA

Ivica Kolaric

Head of department of functional materials, Fraunhofer IPA

Ivica Kolaric serves as head of department for “Functional Materials” at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, Germany and as a co-director Fraunhofer Project Center for Electroactive Polymer AIST, Kansai (Japan). After graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen in the field of mechatronics, he gained his first work experience in an automotive environment before joining the Fraunhofer- TEG as a research assistant. In his first years at Fraunhofer, he worked in the field of construction and methodical test planning as well as the execution. M. Kolaric has conducted pioneering work in the field of nano scaled carbon such as CNT and Graphene, and opened up this future technology for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. In 2002, Mr Kolaric, took over the group and expanded it to a new department, which has been integrated into the Fraunhofer IPA in 2008. In the same year, he started work around the hot topic “graphene”. To this day, his “Functional Materials” department is one of the biggest group’s worldwide, dealing with the application-oriented research of nano scaled carbon. Currently Mr. Kolaric’s focuses on nano enhanced energy storages systems, advanced printed technologies for human machine interfaces and material compositions for future the transportation industry.

Sharali Malik

Chair, COST CA15107

Sharali Malik

Chair, COST CA15107

Sharali Malik leads the Nano-Carbon Materials research group at the Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He studied Chemistry at King’s College London, Electrochemical Sciences at Southampton University. This led to a R&D position with Varta developing the batteries which made mobile-phones truly “mobile” rather than just “transportable”. Later on, at Kent University, his PhD research was on High Temperature Corrosion of Metals where he developed the “Malik General-Flux Equation” which was put to good use by Westinghouse. Health, Safety and Environmental issues are key considerations in all areas and Dr Malik also has several years’ experience of advising on, implementing and enforcing Health and Safety at Work as a UK Government HSE Inspector. Dr Malik is the chair of COST Action CA15107 - Multi-Functional Nano-Carbon Composite Materials Network (MultiComp). The Action’s main objective is the “Fabrication of lighter, stronger and cheaper nano-carbon composite materials” and so provides an ideal platform for Participants to enhance their research-related skills as well as their innovation and enterprise skills in this international network which involves both academic and business enterprises.

Matthew Graham

Chief executive officer, Sino Global Capital

Matthew Graham

Chief executive officer, Sino Global Capital

Matthew Graham, chief executive officer of Sino Global Capital, has six years of mainland China investment banking and venture capital experience. At chief executive officer of Sino Global Capital, Matthew focuses on China cross-border strategic investment including clients in manufacturing and materials related sectors such as nanotechnology, batteries, and raw materials. In his previous role he was a Managing Director at CBC, a Chinese private equity fund with limited partners that included TCL and the cities of Shenzhen and Chongqing. Matthew graduated from the University of Rochester MBA program with a concentration in finance and studied quantitative finance at the University of California Berkeley. Before pursuing his graduate studies, Matthew managed a trading desk at a boutique technology-focused hedge fund in New York City after starting his career at IBM Global Services. Mr. Graham was a National Merit, Presidential, and Xerox Scholar at American University. He lives in Beijing and is fluent in Mandarin.

2:50 PM

Panel discussion: Financing innovation

Materials R&D takes, on average, as long today as it did decades ago to deliver products. Against this backdrop, how can investment be attracted? What incentives might governments provide to businesses? What are global trends for corporate R&D spending? And how should the private sector align its short-term objectives with its long-term goals?

Oren Gafri

Venture capitalist, materials engineering, MMT Fund

Oren Gafri

Venture capitalist, materials engineering, MMT Fund

Oren Garfi was the founder and chief executive officer of Chemitas, the largest manufacturer and supplier of specialty chemicals, water and wastewater treatment in Israel, from 1989-1995. He was also the founder, chief executive officer and president of Pulsar (1996-2007). He was elected by Tel Aviv University to be Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 and is also the founder and chairman of Wadis. Mr Garfi is a co-founder and senior partner of the Millennium Materials Technology Funds I and II (1998 – now), which invests in seed and early stage Material Science companies. Mr Garfi has furthermore co-founded several technology non-for profit organizations, and served as the chairman of those, including The Peals of Wisdom Association. Mr Garfi is one of the founders and mentors of The Rishon-Start up accelerator. He is Board director and Corporate senior executive at Tel Aviv University. Mr Garfi has roughly 20 patents.

Amy Heintz

Senior research scientist, Battelle

Amy Heintz

Senior research scientist, Battelle

Amy Heintz is a senior research scientist at Battelle, where she focuses on advanced materials, particularly translation of early stage concepts to products. Generally, her research is applied to solve proprietary challenges of commercial customers. Her technical expertise encompasses functional coatings and surfaces, ageing of soft matter, and dispersions. She has applied this expertise to solve technology problems in virtually every market; including medical devices, aerospace, consumer products, building and construction, oil and gas, industrial equipment, and electronics. Amy led two different internal R&D projects to grow new business offerings for Battelle: one in drug delivery devices and the other in advanced heaters for unmanned aerial vehicles. Both efforts resulted in successful maturation of technologies from TRL2 to TRL7. HeatCoat™ is a new anti-icing for aircraft that is now in preparation for flight demonstration; while the underlying materials platform is being expanded into new markets such as medical device.

3:30 PM

Fireside chat: The future of travel

Dirk Ahlborn

Chief executive officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Dirk Ahlborn

Chief executive officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Dirk Ahlborn is the CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) and the Founder and CEO of JumpStarter Inc. Founded in 2013, HTT designs and builds the most highly profitable, fastest, safest, and environmentally friendly transportation system for passengers and goods. HTT utilizes JumpStarter’s crowdfunding and crowd collaboration platform JumpStartFund and is thus able to leverage technology and a 800+ team of global experts to bring disruptive innovation to the traditional transportation industry. Hyperloop first gained public interest when entrepreneur Elon Musk published a white paper describing a futuristic mode of transport that would transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about thirty minutes. Musk handed the concept to the public and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies rose to the challenge.

4:00 PM

Networking break

4:30 PM

In conversation: It’s quality, not quantity

What are the risks to safety associated with new materials? How can businesses ensure that production of new materials meets the desired norms, quality, regulation and standards?

Ashok Ganesh

Director, innovation, CEN-CENELEC

Ashok Ganesh

Director, innovation, CEN-CENELEC

Ashok Ganesh is Director Innovation at CEN CENELEC and has worked in standardization for ov20 years. His current responsibilities include developing new standardization opportunities including standards supporting the digital transformation of industry, deeper integration of standards and research, supporting SME and societal stakeholders to benefit from standards and Education about Standardization.

Sanjay Chandra

Chief of research and development and scientific services, Tata Steel

Sanjay Chandra

Chief of research and development and scientific services, Tata Steel

Sanjay Chandra is a Metallurgical engineer with a Phd degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has been with Tata Steel for nearly 34 years and has worked largely in the Technical function. He has led research and development in two stints once in 2004 and since 2013. His areas of interest are mathematical modelling of heat transfer and phase transformation. Under his leadership, research work in Graphene has moved out from being a research and development project to a fledgling business unit. Other mature area of development is iron powder of high quality and surface area.

5:00 PM

In conversation: The next generation of alloys

New materials are revolutionising manufacturing, but not without a battle from existing ones. Aluminium is one such incumbent, and its producers are using it to develop lightweight alloys that are easier and faster than past versions to shape into intricate forms. In this interview, we will invite two chief executives to discuss how these lightweight materials have helped create new industries and transform existing ones.

Mark Sommer

Chief executive officer, Gamma Alloys

Mark Sommer

Chief executive officer, Gamma Alloys

Mark Sommer co-founded Gamma Alloys in 2008 and currently serves as the company’s CEO. Mark’s technical background in engine design, process engineering, and materials science, combined with business experience, has been vital to the growth and success of Gamma Alloys. Under his leadership, Gamma has grown from a lab concept of reinforcing aluminum alloys with nanotechnology to a game-changer material supplier for the aerospace, automotive, and alternative energy industries. His vision for Gamma is to become the world leader in ultra-strong, lightweight materials. Prior to Gamma Alloys, Mark was the President of Del West USA, a leading manufacturer of precision auto engine components for the auto racing and ultra-performance passenger car markets. Mark still serves on the board of the parent company, Del West Engineering as well as Perception Robots, a developer of touch and vision -based sensing solutions for next-generation robots.

Hansang Kwon

Chief executive officer, Next Generation Materials

Hansang Kwon

Chief executive officer, Next Generation Materials

5:30 PM

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November 14th

Tuesday

9:00 AM

Yesterday’s findings

Geoffrey Carr, science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr

Science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr

Science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr is the Science and Technology Editor of “The Economist”. Before he fell among journalists, he researched animal behaviour at Oxford University. In particular, he studied the behavioural ecology of feral dogs in the Italian Apennines, becoming something of an expert on the matter. An expert was once defined as someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. A journalist lives in perpetual danger of turning into the opposite of this. He hopes, however, that he has now arrived at some sort of Hegelian synthesis between the two extremes.

9:10 AM

The breakthrough: Nano-augmented materials

As science and technology advance, the world resembles more and more the visions portrayed in some science fiction. Nano-augmented materials are one of the fields which particularly stretch the imagination and the intellect. In what ways might their adoption fundamentally change the face of global industry?

Michail Predtechenskiy

Head of research and development, OCSiAl

Michail Predtechenskiy

Head of research and development, OCSiAl

Mikhail Predtechenskiy is a doctor of Physico-Mathematical Sciences, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the department at the Institute of Thermophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and head of the department of Nanocomposites at Novosibirsk State University. He is the head of R&D and a co-founder of OCSiAl Group, and the author of more than 300 scientific publications and 51 patents. Dr Predtechenskiy has achieved a number of breakthroughs in the fields of molecular physics, plasma physics, thermophysics, high-temperature superconductivity, thin-film physics and others. Currently, his main efforts are concentrated on the synthesis of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). He created the first industrial-scale technology for SWCNT production, which is the core material of OCSiAl. This technology allowed OCSiAl to significantly reduce the cost of SWCNTs and to offer the product TUBALL at a price 100 times lower than that of competitors. This has powered OCSiAl to its current position where it controls 90% of the global market for SWCNTs. Dr Predtechenskiy, using SWCNTs, has produced new materials with improved properties that were previously unattainable, such as heavy-duty conductive polyethylene, nanotube paper, and lithium-ion batteries with a charging rate many times higher than before. The scientists at OCSiAl, under the guidance of Dr Predtechenskiy, have created a whole range of concentrates and suspensions that make it easy to introduce SWCNTs into various materials including thermoplastics, thermosets, rubber, carbon-filled plastic and glass-reinforced plastic.

Gabby Sarusi

Professor of electrooptic engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Gabby Sarusi

Professor of electrooptic engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Gabby Sarusi is a faculty member at the electro-optics engineering department and in the Nano-science institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev since 2012. His researches include quantum structure infrared detectors, band gap-engineering quantum devices, SWIR to visible upconversion devices based on nano-photonics technologies, nano augmented materials such as Graphene and Graphene Nano-Tubes (GNT or SWCNT) for photonic devices and for optical transparent cathodes and anodes.

In parallel to his academic career Prof. Sarusi is a co-founder of Imagine – mobile augmented reality Ltd., Nano-Sono corporation Ltd., TechSee Ltd. and have just joined RideOn Ltd. Prof. Sarusi has been on the boards of directors of several Israeli companies such as SCD, Opgal Ltd., Medigus Ltd. and IAI Ltd.

Prior to his academic carrier, Prof. Sarusi hold several executive positions at Elbit System – Electrooptic (ElOp) the largest electrooptics company in Israel and one of four worldwide, where he was: V.P. Head of the Space and Air Imagery Intelligence Division, V.P. - Chief Scientist and the Head of Thermal Imaging System Development.

Prof. Sarusi holds double B.Sc. degrees with honor in Nuclear Engineering and in Material Science, M.Sc. with honor and Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in Physical-Electronics Engineering and MBA from Tel-Aviv University. He did his post doctorate at AT&T Bell Labs. Murray-Hill N.J. and in NASA-JPL, Pasadena CA.

Jens Kreisel

Director, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Jens Kreisel

Director, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Professor Jens Kreisel is Director of the "Materials Research and Technology Department" at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). The department translates cutting-edge Materials research into industrial innovation, by focusing on Nanomaterials and Composite Materials. Before moving to Luxembourg in 2012, he was Director of Research at the CNRS in Grenoble and Dpt. Vice-President of the Grenoble Institute of Technology. JK's personal research interests lie in Materials Sciences, with a particular interest in how different physical properties interact in functional materials and how such functionalities can be translated into technology. He received a PEARL award of 5 M€ in 2013 from the Luxembourg research council for investigating multifunctional materials. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Phase Transitions" and also Adjunct Professor at the University of Luxembourg.

9:50 AM

The breakthrough: Batteries and beyond

What novel energy-storage options are already on the market, or fast making their way there? How can smart-materials science be used to lower the cost of batteries further and make products like electric cars more cost-effective and mainstream?

Doron Aurbach

Director of the nano cleantech centre, Bar-llan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Material

Doron Aurbach

Director of the nano cleantech centre, Bar-llan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Material

Doron Aurbach founded the electrochemistry group at the Bar Ilan University in 1985. He also chaired the department of chemistry there from 2001-2005. His team studies the electrochemistry of active metals and non-aqueous electrochemical systems, develops spectroscopic methods (in situ and ex situ) for sensitive electrochemical systems, examines the electrochemical intercalation processes, electrochemical water desalination, electronically conducting red-ox polymers and develops rechargeable high energy density batteries and EDL capacitors. He has published more than 570 peer reviewed papers and boasts more than 25 patents. He serves as a senior editor in the journal of the electrochemical Society (JES). He is also a fellow of the ECS (2008), ISE (2010) and MRS (2012) and heads the INREP: Israel national research center for electrochemical propulsion. He received the ECS battery Div. technology award (2005), the Israel vacuum society (IVS) and Israel chemical society (ICS) excellence prizes (2007, 2012), the Landau prize for research towards green energy (2011), the ECS battery Div. research award, the Kolthoff prize (2013) and the E.B. Yeager prize of the International Battery Association IBA (2014).

Marc Fenigstein

Chief executive officer and co-founder, Alta Motors

Marc Fenigstein

Chief executive officer and co-founder, Alta Motors

A technologist, designer and CEO of Alta Motors, Marc Fenigstein has spent a career developing unique products for new markets, and helping large, staid companies reinvent themselves. He’s worked in venture capital at Redwood Venture Partners, strategy consulting at BCG and Frog Design creating products including HP's SkyRoom software, Carmanah Technologies' 1700 Series Solar Lighting systems and many others under NDA. With a propensity to take things apart and rebuild them at a young age, Marc graduated with a BA degree in Fine Art and Engineering and a MEM in Engineering and Management at Dartmouth College.

10:30 AM

Panel discussion: The additive future

Emerging design and manufacturing tools such as 3D printing, material informatics software, electron microscopy, virtual prototyping, simulation software and robotics are shortening the time needed to design materials and parts. These same innovations are starting to reshape industries and up-end traditional business models. Are we ready for the additive future? What impact will additive manufacturing have on traditional value chains?

Wilfried Vancraen

Chief executive officer, Materialise

Wilfried Vancraen

Chief executive officer, Materialise

Wilfried Vancraen is the founder and chief executive officer of Materialise. Founded in 1990, Materialise incorporates more than 25 years of 3D printing experience into a range of software solutions and 3D printing services that together form a backbone for 3D printing technologies. In recent years, Mr Vancraen has been awarded the RTAM/SME Industry Achievement Award; has been selected as the most influential person in additive manufacturing by industry professionals and TCT Magazine; and has been listed one of the five leading players in his sector by the Financial Times. He is also the recipient of a 2013 "Visionaries!" award from the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Mr Vancraen holds a Master of Science in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from KULeuven University.

Tim Weber

Global head of metals, HP 3D Printing Business

Tim Weber

Global head of metals, HP 3D Printing Business

Tim Weber is Global Head of 3D Materials and Advanced Applications. His organization is responsible for development and commercialization of additive manufacturing (3-D Printed) materials, processes, and applications. Prior to HP, Tim worked for Boeing at their helicopter manufacturing facility in Philadelphia. He joined HP in 1993, starting as a product engineer on one of HP’s first thermal ink jet printers. Shortly thereafter he went into technical management and helped lead the development of numerous ink jet products. Over the next several years Tim led several R&D projects, becoming a R&D director in 2001. His organization was responsible for the development and ongoing production of the MEMS-based advanced printhead technology recently introduced across HP’s inkjet product lineup. Tim holds 52 U.S.-issued patents.

Aloyse Schoos

Chief technology officer, IEE

Aloyse Schoos

Chief technology officer, IEE

Aloyse Schoos is chief technology officer in charge of new technologies, central research and development and academic collaborations at IEE S.A. He holds a Masters in Electronics Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. Before joining IEE in 1991, he worked for various companies ranging from an academic spin-off to large multinational corporations. Aloyse Schoos is a member of the Scientific Council at the National Research Fund.

11:15 AM

Networking break

11:45 AM

CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 1.1

Aerospace

A new breed of aircraft built from lightweight materials is taking flight. Smart materials have the ability to adapt to different conditions, reducing the weight and cost of an aircraft. How are these materials strengthening the aviation industry, and what will the plane of the future look like?

Christian Weimer

General manager materials and head of materials X, Airbus

Christian Weimer

General manager materials and head of materials X, Airbus

For more than two decades Dr. Christian Weimer has done research in the field of carbon fibre reinforced composites, but also surface and adhesives technologies. He started at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW). In 2003 he joined Airbus Helicopters to become team leader and senior expert in new composite production technologies. In 2012 he changed to Airbus Group to become Head of Operations of Composites Technologies. In 2017 Christian was appointed Head of Materials within Airbus CTO Central Research & Technology and in June he was also nominated General Materials or Thrust Leader Materials for Airbus. In this function he is leading research in the field of Materials for the different applications which include the Airbus Divisions (e.g. commercial aircraft, helicopters or defence and space), but also covers aspects of future air vehicles and air mobility. Christian's research has led to more than 50 international presentations and publications. Several of his more than 25 patent applications have found their way into application. Christian is also lecturing at the Technical University (TU) Munich on supply- and value creation composites.

Christian Suttner

Co-founder, Starburst Accelerator

Christian Suttner

Co-founder, Starburst Accelerator

Dr. Christian Suttner is co-founder and managing partner of Starburst, a global Aerospace consulting company focused on supporting corporates regarding innovation, growth, and transformation. He studied computer science at TU Munich and Virginia Tech and after a Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence, he started his career in strategy consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton. He then spent several years in Venture Capital, mainly focused on investing in Internet-enabled businesses. Transferring innovation know-how back to corporates, he joined global semiconductor company Infineon as Vice President heading in-house innovation scouting and incubation (with 6 trade-sales and spin-outs of internally launched businesses) and later headed corporate strategy including new business creation, followed by global sales management, at global DRAM manufacturing company Qimonda. Since then he has founded/co-founded 7 companies. Over time, he has supported numerous corporations and startups regarding strategy, innovation, growth, digitization, business planning, transformation and operational excellence. Dr. Suttner uniquely combines experience ranging from launching and investing in startups to managing and implementing change in corporations. Starburst runs the largest aerospace accelerator and technology scouting organization globally, which includes a segment on material and coating innovations. The accelerator provides Starburst with a comprehensive overview of aerospace innovations globally.

11:45 AM

CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 1.2

Energy

What are some of the emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the way energy is produced and used? And what might they mean for the energy industry?

Paul O’Brien

Professor of inorganic materials chemistry, University of Manchester

Paul O’Brien

Professor of inorganic materials chemistry, University of Manchester

Paul O'Brien is professor of Inorganic Materials Chemistry in both the School of Chemistry and the School of Materials at University of Manchester. He has previously been research dean, head of the School of Chemistry and head of the School of Materials. He founded Nanoco in 2001 now listed on LSE. He began his career as a lecturer at Chelsea College, University of London, before moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1984 and being promoted to a chair in 1994. In 1995 he moved to Imperial College and became the Sumitomo/STS Professor of Materials Chemistry. He was also visiting professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the 2007 Kroll Medal from the IoM3, the first Peter Day Award for Materials Chemistry in 2009 and The Longstaff Medal in 2016. As a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry he chaired the Materials Forum, and was a member of the Council of the RSC for nearly a decade and an inaugural vice president. He has lectured widely to the public, especially to young people, and received the Colin Humphries Award of the IoM3 for outreach activities in 2011 and their Platinum Medal in 2014. In 2016 his work in science and engineering was recognized by the award of a CBE.

Greg Conary

Greg Conary

Sheetal Handa

Associate director BP-ICAM, BP International Limited

Sheetal Handa

Associate director BP-ICAM, BP International Limited

Sheetal Handa is the associate director responsible for the portfolio of research projects in the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, a 10-year $100m investment by BP in advanced materials research, with the hub at the University of Manchester and spokes at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

11:45 AM

CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 1.3

Construction

What role can new materials play in the construction industry? How can we build for maximum efficiency with minimal materials? What are the new “cleaner” construction materials that generate lower carbon emissions throughout their production and use?

Robert Dennewald

Chief executive officer, Eurobeton

Robert Dennewald

Chief executive officer, Eurobeton

Kristian Steele

Principal Consultant, Arup

Kristian Steele

Principal Consultant, Arup

Kristian Steele works in the Advanced Technology and Research group and takes a special interest in their climate change and materials consulting businesses respectively. His professional training was as a civil engineer, but through a doctorate, work experience with BRE, and subsequently Arup, he has moved to specialise in systems analysis using tools like LCA and MRIO to understand environmental challenges of product and material supply chains, of buildings and infrastructure, organisations and their operation, and at the regional or sector scale. Kristian’s work has been used to inform policy and strategy, guide design projects, advise Governments, sectors and organisations, as well as support product development programmes.

Olivier Vassart

Portfolio leader for construction, ArcelorMittal

Olivier Vassart

Portfolio leader for construction, ArcelorMittal

Prof. Dr. Olivier Vassart is portfolio leader for construction, infrastructure and long products within ArcelorMittal’s global research and development team. In addition to his work for ArcelorMittal, he is Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

12:45 PM

Networking lunch

2:00 PM

CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 2.1

Automotive

Changes to the design and manufacture of cars, lorries and buses are making drivers and passengers safer, and also reducing fuel consumption. What has been the role of new materials in these improvements? What materials will make vehicles even better in the future?

Kent Schölin

Senior vice-president research & innovation, Gränges

Kent Schölin

Senior vice-president research & innovation, Gränges

After a year as process engineer at the truck manufacturer Scania, Kent Schölin joined Gränges’ research centre in Finspång, Sweden as a research engineer specialized in aluminium flat rolled products for brazed heat exchangers. Mr Schölin held several positions within Gränges over the years primarily within Research and Development and operations. After a seven-year period outside Gränges as manager director for a retail security company he came back to Gränges as president for the European operations 2012. Since spring 2017 he has assumed a new position as senior vice-president Research and Innovation. The new position is a result of an increased focus in Gränges strategy both on product development within the current core applications but also research and innovation in new applications. To support this strategy the research centre in Finspång, Sweden is strengthened to be the global centre for long term development with a clear connection to group strategy.

Jean Claude-Kihn

President, EMEA, Goodyear

Jean Claude-Kihn

President, EMEA, Goodyear

Jean-Claude Kihn joined Goodyear in 1988 as a Chemical Engineer at the Goodyear Innovation Center in Luxembourg. During his career, he built an extensive research and development expertise in the field of materials science, tire technology and tire development for Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. In 2016, he was appointed President of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Europe, Middle East & Africa business. He previously had served as President of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Latin America business since 2014 and Senior Vice President & Managing Director of Goodyear Brazil since December 2012. Prior to that, Kihn served as the company’s Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer since 2008. Kihn is a Chemical Engineer and has a Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium.

2:00 PM

CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 2.3

Consumer goods

Which consumer products have already benefited from new materials? How will such materials change the spaces people inhabit and the smart devices they increasingly rely on? Will new materials help create “smart” homes, and what might those homes look like?

Russel Kempt

Vice-president, Nanosys

Russel Kempt

Vice-president, Nanosys

As Nanosys Vice President, Russell Kempt oversees new business development and strategic partnerships. Russell has extensive experience in advanced materials with a track record for bringing innovative new materials products from lab project to commercial success. Prior to Nanosys, Russell served as Vice President at advanced materials innovator Intermolecular, Inc. (IMI). At IMI Russell developed and managed technical and sales teams in the US, Europe, Taiwan, China and Korea to execute highly complex R&D processes across multiple partners and customers. He helped to enable a successful IPO for the company in 2011. Prior to IMI, Russell held management positions with leading semi-conductor technology companies including PDF Solutions and Silvaco. Russell has a B.S. in Finance and Management from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from the University of Texas.

Chuck Milligan

Chief executive officer, FlexEnable

Chuck Milligan

Chief executive officer, FlexEnable

Chuck Milligan is chief executive officer of FlexEnable, the leader in flexible electronics technology for flexible, lightweight and unbreakable displays and sensors for consumer electronics, automotive, wearable and medical applications. Mr Milligan has over 20 years’ commercial and general management experience across the globe in the semiconductor, consumer electronics, communications, industrial and aerospace markets. Before joining FlexEnable in 2015, Mr Milligan served as chief executive officer of EM Test, the leading conducted EMC test equipment company, successfully completing its sale to the US company AMETEK. Prior to this, Mr Milligan was chief executive officer of Swiss firm Heptagon micro-optics, which he grew from a 16-employee, pre-revenue company in Zurich, to an industry-leading business, with 300 employees and a Singapore-based volume production facility, supplying high-volume optical components to leading mobile handset companies such as Nokia and Apple. He raised over $70m from venture capital and strategic investors to support this growth.Mr Milligan also served as vice-president of Industrial and Defense Solutions for Bookham, a leading international optical components manufacturer. Mr Milligan was commercial director at JDS Uniphase/Nortel Networks GaAs semiconductor fab in Zurich, Switzerland prior to Bookham’s acquisition of the company. Mr Milligan moved to Switzerland in 1995 to establish a Europe/Africa sales office for Harris RF Communications, a global radio communications systems supplier.

Alexander Lorestani

Chief executive officer, Geltor

Alexander Lorestani

Chief executive officer, Geltor

Marc Jacobs

Chairman, APEMCO

Marc Jacobs

Chairman, APEMCO

Marc holds a Master’s Degree in electro-mechanical engineering from KIH De Nayer in Belgium and a SLOAN MSc in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School.

He moved to Luxembourg in 1998 as co-founder and General Manager of LuxPET. After the acquisition of LuxPET in 2005 by Plastipak, Marc held several senior positions within Plastipak (Managing Director LuxPET, Director Process Technologies and VP of Sales & Marketing for Europe)

Following an academic sabbatical at London Business School in 2014 he started his own company, Imajine Consulting and became an angel investor.

Early 2016, Luxinnovation introduced Marc to Funcoats, a promising Luxembourgish start-up founded by Dr. Claude Becker. Together with two other investors, he started developing the company and completed the service offering by adding APEMCO, a spin-off of the Belgian research institute VITO. Marc is chairman of the board of both companies and is currently in the process of combining the capabilities of both in one group.

2:00 PM

CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 2.2

Healthcare

People are living longer and the burden of chronic disease is thus rising. At the same time, health care is becoming more personalised. Can combining materials science and engineering with biology result in new fields in biomaterials and medicine? Which advances in medical-imaging technologies are improving diagnoses and outcomes for patients? How are better prosthetic and biomedical-implant materials changing the lives of older and disabled people?

Imad Naasani

Chief technology officer, Nanoco Life Sciences

Imad Naasani

Chief technology officer, Nanoco Life Sciences

Dr. Imad Naasani is the CTO of Nanoco Life Sciences, a business branch within Nanoco Technologies, Ltd. Imad is a trained pharmacist and has a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Hokkaido University, Japan. Following several years at the Cancer Institute in Japan, and the Ohio State University, Imad joined in BioCrystal, Ltd. in 2001, then Invitrogen Corp, USA, to become one of the earliest scientists to work on the development and characterisation of quantum dots (QDs) for biological applications. Imad has managed several research groups and worked on projects related to cancer targeting and delivery systems. He has accumulated a wealth of inventions with more than 50 patents and patent applications related to the development and functionalisation of QDs and their specialised biological applications. Imad joined Nanoco in 2008 and is now expanding the Life Science Division with chemistry and bio facilities that are now ready to exploit market opportunities.

Rik Jacobs

General manager, dental, 3D Systems

Rik Jacobs

General manager, dental, 3D Systems

3:00 PM

Networking break

3:30 PM

Keynote panel: The world in…2020, 2040, 2060, 2080

What do the next 60 years hold for materials science? What should companies, policymakers, manufacturers and environmentalists be thinking about today in order to prepare for the materials of tomorrow? Will new materials play a role in turning fantasy into reality? And, if so, which fantasies?

Anthony Schiavo

Analyst, Lux Research

Anthony Schiavo

Analyst, Lux Research

Anthony Schiavo is an analyst based in Lux Research’s Singapore office. He leads the Advanced Materials team and supports the broader materials research at Lux. Under his leadership, the Advanced Materials team conducts research on technical and market trends in areas such as future materials platforms, advanced structural materials, and coatings. His expertise also includes new technological innovations in digital manufacturing, materials informatics, and advanced design technologies. Mr Schiavo often is called upon to provide strategic advice and guidance for executives in the automotive, chemicals, and consumer goods industries. Mr Schiavo received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Mr Schiavo focused his research activities on biomaterial composites and nanoparticle technology and ethics.

Matteo Pasquali

Chair of the Chemistry Department, Rice University

Matteo Pasquali

Chair of the Chemistry Department, Rice University

Matteo Pasquali is the A. J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University, where he also serves as Chair of the Chemistry Department and previously served as Master of Lovett College and member of the academic senate. After receiving his Laurea from University of Bologna and PhD from University of Minnesota, he joined Rice University in 2000 to start a laboratory on soft materials, which evolved into a key center for the scalable manufacturing and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene materials with enhanced mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. The laboratory currently targets applications in wearables, energy transmission and harvesting, biomedicine, aerospace, and defense. These CNT materials are already incorporated into prototypes (field emitters, data cables) and high-end products (audio cables). Matteo has advised over 90 graduate students and postdocs, who are now in key positions in industry, academia, national laboratories, startups, and finance. Matteo’s work is funded by wide range of industries ranging from international and national oil companies to automotive, aerospace, electronics, and high tech companies. Matteo founded two companies, DexMat (smart CNT materials) and NanoLinea (medical applications of CNT fibers). Matteo’s work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER, Goradia innovation prize, Schlack award for man-made fibers, and multiple NASA Tech Brief Awards. Matteo is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

4:15 PM

Racing to the Future: Lessons from Formula One

Renowned Formula One designer and engineer Mike Gascoyne discusses what high-class auto-racing can teach the world about using materials to gain competitive advantage in all areas of life.

Mike Gascoyne

Designer and engineer, Formula One

Mike Gascoyne

Designer and engineer, Formula One

Mike Gascoyne, is one of the most renowned technicians in Formula One and has carved out an illustrious career at the pinnacle of international Motorsport for over two decades.

Having studied for a Ph.D. in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University throughout the 1980s, Mike’s passion for Motorsport took him into the world of Formula One for the first time in 1989 when he joined the McLaren team. Since 1989 Mike has continued working at varying teams such as Sauber, Tyrrell, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, Force India and the Caterham Group. Mike has extensive experience in Motorsport and sports car engineering as well as international top level management.

Mike Gascoyne’s early career appointments include Head of Aerodynamics at McLaren Racing (1989-1991), Chassis Dynamists and then Deputy Technical Director at Tyrell F1 (1991-1993), Technical Director at Jordan F1 Team (1998-2000), Technical Director at Renault F1 Team (2001-2003), Technical Director and Head of Chassis Design at Toyota Motorsport GmbH, and CTO at Sahara Force India Formula One team (2006-2008).

From 2009-2015 Mike Gascoyne was CTO at Caterham Group, where he was responsible for setting up and managing the Group's Motorsport entities including the F1, GP2 and Le Mans teams. He also managed business development using his experience in Formula 1 engineering and project management to develop competitive turn-key solutions for the automotive, marine and aviation industry. Mike’s two main achievements during his time at the Caterham Group were setting up the Lotus Racing Formula 1 Team from scratch in 2009/2010 as well as negotiating and finalising the automotive partnership between the Caterham Group and Renault Alpine in France to produce a sports car on a joint design and production platform.

Mike Gascoyne replaced Eddie Jordan for several races as technical pundit for the BBC F1 coverage on live TV and Radio and was one of the most sought after personalities in the pit lane for media work. He is regularly on TV as a guest pundit for various Sky F1 channel feature programs.

Away from the fast-paced world of F1, Mike’s other passion is offshore sailing, and he aims to bring F1 standards of technology and logistics to offshore racing, to encourage green, sustainable and reusable energy technologies in the marine, automotive and aerospace sectors and to utilise his extensive experience in R&D, engineering, competitive sailing and sports marketing. He has competed in international offshore sailing events such as the Transat Jacques Vabres 2013, The Rolex Fastnet Race 2015, the RORC Transatlantic race and in 2012 completed a solo transatlantic trip on a Class 40 racing yacht.

Mike has previously raced old F1 cars and organised then lead expeditions in the Himalayas during student years.

4:45 PM

Ask The Economist: Engineering the future

In this audience-led session, The Economist’s editors will take questions on the key issues that have shaped our two days of discussion.

Geoffrey Carr

Science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr

Science editor, The Economist

Geoffrey Carr is the Science and Technology Editor of “The Economist”. Before he fell among journalists, he researched animal behaviour at Oxford University. In particular, he studied the behavioural ecology of feral dogs in the Italian Apennines, becoming something of an expert on the matter. An expert was once defined as someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. A journalist lives in perpetual danger of turning into the opposite of this. He hopes, however, that he has now arrived at some sort of Hegelian synthesis between the two extremes.

Hal Hodson

Technology correspondent, The Economist

Hal Hodson

Technology correspondent, The Economist

Hal Hodson is technology correspondent at The Economist. Previously, he worked at New Scientist for three years in Boston and one year in London. At New Scientist, Hal wrote about internet policy and economics, robotics, artificial intelligence, infrastructure and biotechnology. He has reported from abroad, including Bolivia, Mexico, South Korea and Finland. Hal graduated in 2010 from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in astrophysics.

5:00 PM

Wrap-up and closing remarks

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To easily incorporate TUBALL™ into materials, OCSiAl has developed TUBALL™ MATRIX off-the-shelf pre-dispersed concentrates that provide conductivity and enhanced mechanical properties to elastomers, composites, plastics, coatings and batteries without any negative impact on other important characteristics.

The R&D team of highly qualified scientists at the company’s unique research and production centre is also developing innovative products that are able to bring the most challenging technical aspirations into life. For instance, a unique ultra-light, conductive and strong material has been developed that consists of up to 90% of TUBALL™ and has the potential to revolutionise the aerospace and automotive industries.

OCSiAl is leading the charge in increasing the transparency of the management and utilisation of single wall carbon nanotubes by investing in health and safety related projects conducted by independent universities and research institutes. Currently, OCSiAl is the only company that has registered its TUBALL™ nanotubes in accordance with the EU’s ECHA regulations.

Headquartered in Luxembourg, the company has footprints in the USA, Korea, Russia, China, Hong Kong and India.

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Rusnano Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs

The Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs was founded during the reorganization of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies. It stimulates nanotechnology infrastructure building to support innovation in the country. The Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs primarily focuses its activity in these areas:

Formation of infrastructure for nanotechnology

Development of human resources for the nanoindustry

Market development for nanotechnology products

Improvement of the legislative framework for innovation

Standardization and certification of nanoproducts and evaluation of their safety

Refinements in metrology

Popularization of nanotechnology and nano-enabled products.

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Gold sponsor

Hydro

Extruded Solutions is a business area within Hydro and is the world leader in innovative aluminium solutions. Formerly known as Sapa, the company became fully-owned by Hydro in 2017, and is now part of a fully integrated aluminium company with 35,000 employees in 40 countries on all continents. Extruded Solutions delivers tailored components and solutions to all industries, from automotive and mass transportation to building and construction, electronics, offshore and maritime. Based in Norway and rooted in more than a century of experience in renewable energy, technology and innovation, Hydro is committed to strengthening the viability of its customers and communities, shaping a sustainable future through innovative aluminium solutions.

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BCCL

Established in 1992, the BCC provides its members in Luxembourg’s international English-speaking community with a platform for networking with decision makers and business contacts, promoting their companies, products and services, and obtaining and exchanging information on the latest developments affecting business and living and working in Luxembourg.

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FEDIL

FEDIL – The Voice of Luxembourg’s IndustryFounded in 1918, FEDIL is a multisectoral business federation giving a voice to industrials and entrepreneurs, fostering Luxembourg’s economy. Our main objective is to provide high-quality support for our members by creating a dynamic network. We promote a constructive dialogue with national stakeholders of the Luxembourgish ecosystem and internationally.

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IBCL

Supporting organisation

BCFL

Launched in 2015 by Prime Minister Bettel, the Business Club France-Luxembourg (BCFL) gathers around 220 French and Luxembourgish members, representing the bilateral business community.The aim is to strengthen links and cooperation between them, all sectors combined. With various tools to reach that goal (Dedicated website, events, newsletter, working groups etc)

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LIST

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a mission-driven Research and Technology Organisation, recognized internationally for its material science department. LIST develops technology-intensive solutions for a large number of socio-economic sectors including space, energy, construction, water management, agriculture & viticulture, mobility, finance, manufacturing technologies, renewables energies, biotechnologies and more.

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BLCC

The BLCC has been the trusted one-stop shop for successfully conducting business in the UK since 1890. As a private not-for-profit business organisation, we help over 250 companies annually exporting and investing in the UK. To achieve success, we offer practical services, a wide, reliable network and access to our co-working spaces and Club Houses in Central London and the North of England.

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CPD Certification Service

Established in 1996, The CPD Certification Service is the independent CPD accreditation centre working across all sectors, disciplines and further learning applications. War on Cancer 2018 is eligible for 5.5 CPD points which The Economist Events can assist with claiming post-event.

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MESA International

MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) International is a global community of manufacturers, producers, industry leaders and solution providers who are focused on improving Operations Management capabilities through the effective application of technology solutions and best practices.

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Manufacturing Journal

"Manufacturing-Journal" is industry-focused International business magazine. Surveys demonstrate that is required reading for top managers across the whole spectrum of international manufacturing industry and in all major European countries. It's this diversity in depth that makes "Manufacturing-Journal" the forum of choice for international companies in so many fields. So, when major corporations thought the Continent have a story to tell, time and again they choose "Manufacturing-Journal" to tell it.

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